New-York tribune., 1887-10-23
DISCOMFORT IN MID-AIR
ovERCRowDING ON MANHATTAN LINES
TOO FEW TRAINS RUN-EvILs OF PARsiMoNIoUs
MANAcrMrNr= nIsCaARGING EMPIOYES.


light fall overcoat and silk hat Of the latest syie to
his companion yesterday after they had waited eight
minutes and half, Standard tmc for a train at the
Cortandt Street station OF the Sixth Avenue Elevated
Railroad. An OF economy has In this road
and the management has undertaken to reduce ex-
pense In order to DO tbs trains been taken off,
the number of decreased and employees discharged
and the needs an comforts OF the public wholly disrs-
garded Here we have been waiting nearly ten min
utes for train uptown and not op ourselves but
the people who are waiting for us In Onehundred and
twenty ty-hfh-st seriously Inconvenience and do
lsyed Why So that Russell Sage and some econom
cal people like him run up Manhattan Elevated
stock few points aud reap the proa 1t is An outrage
PEOPLE TREATED WORSE THAN CATTLE.
II Russell Sage and Jay Gould and Colonel Ham ana
other magnaes would take the trouble to spend short
time ut the City Hall, or South Ferry, or Chatham
Square, almost any station OF their road, they wouu
not be long learning the general opinion as to their
parsimonious management The complaint expressed
above only In of thousands heard daily Not
only the trains run outside OF commission hour'
too few, aud separated by lengthening Intervals out
during the rush morning aud evening there Is hota
sufficient number OF to supply decent stahdDg
room the people hurrying 10 and fro between their
homes and their work. They and always have been
jammed in with a remorseless and conscienceess dsre
gard of respect for humanity Some pains are taken by
the railroads provide for the comfort and protection
OF the cattle sheep and hogs which they to the
least they shall not trAmpie on each other
Not so with animals taken for transportation by
the elevated roads in the city OF NewYsrk They are
driven into overcrowded pens and rudely pushed
and piled upon each other whou space enough even 10
tnhale the maoIorous air. and when the destination IS
reached they are hustled In manner dangerous 10
limb and often damaging attire. III Mr. Bergh should
hear of such treatment being visited upon dumb beasts
every energy OF his phanthropc soul would be aroused
provide remedy Yet the patient people OF the great
metropolis OF America quietly sibmit to this ill-trea
ment with only an occasional mnrmar No wonder they
have achieved the reputation OF being the most long
suffering people on earth
STANDING on CROWDED PLATFORMS.
How many readers have been compelled to stand In
heat and cold in rain and on crowded platform
elevated station in danger OF being crushed or
pushed off while train after train crammed with people,
passed. The train stops the gates are opened passen-
ger or showed of then the gates quickly closed
again. the more eager are roughly ordered back,
while hundreds OF workers. who are anxously but
patiently waiting compelled to stand and see this
disappointing operation repeated again and again Is 1t
possible that American ingenuity had devised no better
way OF treating the hariworkng portion OF our popula
tonl
One cxssperating scheme in practice to prevent the
first or cars the be- from being occupied
s 10 stop them that the entrances cannot be reached
from the platform To get to them the weary traveller
must struggle through the Of human beings In the
packed car in which he has been placed after the
train started up which he has frequently neither the
ability nor the inclination 10 do He is usually
tired make the effort fact Of which the concoct-
ers of the device we'll SO he remains stand
ing with his miserable feowbeings, clutching dirty
srap-f he IS fortunate enough TO fin one TO cutch-un
til South rerrya git out" Is calculated by tho grimy
brakeah and the human herd is hurried out on the plat
form and chased down the stairs to the oobbest
This the way the corporation treats its patrons the
"dear people, who have gracously given TO 1t the use
of their and parks TO procure tho convenience
and comfort" of rapid transit.
DIsCHARGING OLD AND FAITHFUL EMPLOYEES.
In prosecuting the plan Of retrenchment 50 that dvi-
denls be increased the committee in charge OF the
movement have succeeded in abolishng the posts OF
"eugine dspachers and the who filled these posi-
lions have been discharged some OF those were EN-
poyes vino had been in the service of the com
pany. ana who had always given perfect satisfaction.
They certainly had reason to expect better treatment
and they always been considered important factors
in the careful running OF trains. But
when cheese pairing directors seeking
to reduce expenses and "boom" stock mertorous
servants stand no chance OF consideration than tho
comfort anisaiety OF the public and ike the Chinese
they must 20" II rumored that the frugal managers
are ng do away with other positions and in tho
pursuit their policy Of economy many other faithful
employees are TO be dismissed
"Thc,c elevated people carrying their miserly
Campaign a little too far" said welLknown railroad
man yesterday 1.-The travelling public will endure
great deal of Inconvenience Men, women and children
will shver on the platforms during these long waits for
trains and think little about it. They Will undergo the
.sarline .ysem which has always been prsctlsed on
these roads and rarely complain. But wait Ini this
close ii teness produces reguarbuilt accident a' 1t is
sure to do and you will hear some thunder. The dis
charge OF needed officials will bring about ' natural re-
suits aud there will be smash-up AMI long list OF
killed. and wounded in the papers. Then Mr. Sage asd
Of his colaborers viii fni 1t convenient 10 DC OUT
OF town for a few days"
The failure to run reasonable number or trains, ana
enough attached 10 the trains watch put on is
observ able as well on Sundays on week days EX-
pcence has shown that much larger number OF people
upon eyaIed roads convey them ia and from
their places of pleasure religious ooservsnce etc tan
provision is made ior the result IS that there j. oiten
more waiting and erowding delay AMI Slscomiort , on
meetings held at churches anl other places on sunday
evening is generally time of turmoil and mi cry al the
and jamming engcnderng rudcness and often profanity
ami other unpleasant demonstrations which are niue IN
accord with the spirit OF the day No respect ls pad 10
"aunday clothes on such occasions and many boait-
iu gown and hand-ome tile has received usage which
placed them beyond the hope OF restoration Ihs might
81, De @ a. uy r ybcb ne Know viii
amply for conveyance proper respect for the Sabbath
sught OF itself TO imel those IN cono OF those Ioads 10
provide agans; the OF the scenes which take
of the stations and in the cars every sun
day evening.
The MANAGERS WON'T SAY MUCH
TRIBUNE reporter who visited Colonel IIan genera
manager the elevated roads, yesterday. to inquire II
any improvement Intended In the way OF running
traps was informed the schedule called for trains
every six minutes from City Hall and every eight min
utos from South Ferry the Third Avenue Road be-
tween the o. 80 in the mornng and $3.50 In tho
afternoon and the from 1880 10 ii: 80 p. This
IL was alleged wOll give up.train every three and
enc half minutes at Chatham Square, On the Sixth Av-
enue Road time OF the schedule was said 10 be SIX
minutes between the trains out Of "commssion" hours
from South Ferry The downward trains were said TO
run at the same intervals. The time between trains
the second and Ninth avenues still greater While
that the trains amply sufficient
Tor the public necessities Colonel Hain said that he
intended 10 put on larger number OF trains and
moro cars beginning tomorrow. He declined however